Moved down south 20 years ago - have dragged my 2 girls back up to Ewood and to games across the South East for the last decade. My youngest (she’s 10 now) finally got it tonight.

Yep - missed the goal rebooting the sky box to see if that would help ?

I understand your sentiment - but remember that if he hadn't gone to City, then the moment Spurs/Villa/Newcastle/Everton came calling he would have been off anyway.

Read This Thing of Darkness while on holiday and must say a big thank you to all on here who recommended it.

sat in a car all day, but just watched the game which i dvd'd. Gamst was def one of our better players - cant understand why he is being singled out.

Might? If Shaun Wright-Phillips is already on, Keiron Dyers crutches won't carry him through the game and El-Tel's back is smarting a little.

It is a shame - but bearing in mind that those teams with smaller capacities have not filled their smaller stadiums on any occasion (Portsmouth exempted, more on that below), then why would their having a bigger stadium suggest they would get more support - just by having a bigger ground does that make our support worse in some way?!?? Although I would also question the validity of their research when Portsmouth's highest attendance this season actually exceeds their stated capacity??

Somebody else would have given him the clause - as a result he would have gone elsewhere. This way we get two seasons out of him and receive a transfer fee of twice the value we are quoted as paying for him (when he will be 2 years older) - and thats a bad deal???

He played in 20 games this season - but accept that this possibly wasn't the reason. Possibly, more likely that they were future-proofing his contract. At the end of this season he would enter the third year of a four year deal, at which point he would be able to buy his way out of it under the new FIFA regulation.

It seems to be the way the club are operating at the moment. If you perform, and exceed their expectations you are rewarded with a new improved contract. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. It sends out the right message to players.

Groundhog Day? Now they are just repeating stories from last summer.

Agreed,West Ham are rapidly becoming very useful to any selling club. They declare their interest at some vastly overinflated fee - the player decides he doesn't want to go there and the selling club can then say that is the market value for their player. Darren Bent as case in point.

No i wasn't at ewood but not sure what difference that makes - i was at the madjeski stadium in December if that helps? The point was, as Eddie says many teams seem to struggle in their second season (West Ham, Wigan just two examples)

I don't see why Doyle would not want to come here over Reading. The possibility of European football, an established Premier Division side looking to push on into the top 6 on a regular basis - Reading have had a great season and all credit to them, but their target for next season will still be avoiding the drop.

Nyargghghgh - when did May go to Burnley? It must have been whilst I was at Uni, I lost touch a bit with all things not directly related to rovers at that time - I was in deepest darkest devon after all :ph34r: Given that, I consider myself well and truly corrected on this one. EDIT: It was actually later than that (2003-4) - must just have forgotten it.

Berg and May didn't do too badly either.

I think you are probably right, but we may still need Nonda between now and the end of the season so right to try and keep some incentive there for him.

Perhaps the fact tugay is likely to be subbed in a lot of games has been the reason he hasn't been given it. Looking for a bit of consistency in the captaincy rather than tugay having it for say 70 mins and then passing it on. Unfortunately this hasn't panned out as hughes may have hoped due to the already well documented reasons

So we might play Matteo.... I know he's gone just wanted to try and frighten a few people one last time!

Would warnock not have to have signed already to be able to be registered in time?

Aah the delight of going to Milan - pizza, pasta, chianti mmmmm.... No....Oh its Barcelona is it - Paella, Rioja all sounds good.... What....Jellied Eels????????

Based on previous games when Neill has been absent, I suspect ooijer will get it until Nelsen's return.

He's fat, he's round - one day if he plays really well and keeps free of injury he may cost us over £2 million pound....... :ph34r:

I was in a position where i could afford to go to one of chelsea or watford away - watford it is then

Its clearly not a no-risk situation - but it is relatively low-risk. Whilst we could wait until the end of the season and possibly get him for nothing, at a low price surely the prudent thing to do would be to sign him in January. As stated we currently have 3 midfielders of a sufficient standard to play central midfield (i'm not going to include bentley at this point in time), one of whom is currently injured and one of whom has played far more games this season than we would want him to play. Whilst we are hoping to have reid back fairly soon, it is surely not beyond the realms of possibility that he could have a setback which would leave us back down to 2. A small investment in a bit of extra cover and quality could make the difference - as we have seen in previous seasons 1 result can make a massive difference to your league position and subsequent prize money.